's Biography

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Dr. Makrigiorgos is the Director of the Medical Physics and Biophysics Division of the combined Radiation Oncology Department at Brigham and Womens, Dana Farber and Children’s Hospitals, and Associate Professor at Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA. He is a Member of the Editorial Board of Clinical Chemistry and has published over 100 articles, reviews and book chapters. His research interests include the development of novel DNA technologies for molecular diagnostics with application in Oncology. He is the inventor of several novel PCR-based techniques for Molecular Diagnostics, including Balanced-PCR, Anti-primer-quenching real time PCR, Hairpin-PCR and COLD-PCR.